Wednesday, April 04, 2007

A SPOONFUL OF AGLIO

I have just discovered that, in Italy, your neighbours don't come round asking if you can lend them a "cup of sugar" as they do in Britain; they come asking if you can lend them a few cloves of garlic [and I was very happy to oblige, reader]!

8 comments:

My home would not be "home" if I had no garlic. I have it growing. I have cloves of garlic in olive oil in the fridge. I have a bag of fresh garlic hanging in the kitchen and I have crushed garlic in the fridge as well.

I love garlic too, but it always seems to be sprouting lately, even when you just buy it. So I just buy one head at a time, or maybe two if I need more.So if anyone comes to borrow it, I'll either be out or too embarrassed to give them what I have.Regardsjmb

jmb...plant those that shoot...just in a hole big enough to hold the clove with the shoot poking out of the ground. You could even grow them in pots. I just plonk any cloves that start shooting into my herb/vegie plot and up comes the garlic and then a few months down the track, I pull up the fresh knobs. I never give the plants any tender loving care...everything seems to take care of itself and each other.